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The Wider Island of Pelops : Studies on Prehistoric Aegean Pottery in Honour of Professor Christopher Mee, Paperback / softback Book

The Wider Island of Pelops : Studies on Prehistoric Aegean Pottery in Honour of Professor Christopher Mee Paperback / softback

Edited by David Michael (Post-doctoral research associate, University of Liverpool) Smith, William G. (Professor Emeritus of Aegean Archaeology, University of Nottingham) Cavanagh, Angelos Papadopoulos

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The Wider Island of Pelops explores the myriad ways in which pottery was created, utilized, and experienced in the prehistoric Aegean, across a period of more than 4000 years between the Middle Neolithic and the Early Iron Age transition.

Pottery is capable both of creating bonds and creating barriers.

It serves as a sociocultural call and response, marking similarity and difference, collectivism and individualism, knowledge, and the absence of knowledge.

Contextually-bound, it embodies identities, memories and multiple histories.

It reflects choice and reinforces orthodoxy; a product of change, and a driver of it, that both creates and curates understanding of the world.

Necessity and commodity, at times anachronistic, and at others, avant-garde, it is subversive and slavish, innovative and derivative; visible always, and never without value. The seventeen papers collected here provide a diachronic perspective on the value of pottery in marking and mediating cross-scale sociocultural discourse; in framing and facilitating the transmission of knowledge and meaning; in driving economies; in the preservation of memory, in the practice of cult; and, in more recent times, as a vector in the dialogue of imperialism: at once introducing key themes in the study of Aegean pottery, and providing a snapshot of recent archaeological work in Greece.

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